Multinational Monitor - No Choices: Australia's Unions Confront Labor Law "Reform"

Passed through Parliament on December 2, 2005 and proclaimed as law on March 27, Work Choices is an amendment to the Workplace Relations Act (WRA), a package of industrial “reforms” passed by the Australian federal Liberal-National (conservative) Coalition government in 1996. Like Work Choices, that original package aimed at restricting workers’ rights and weakening the power of unions. It is part of the ongoing effort by Australian governments — Labor and Liberal — over the last 25 years, to increase profitability by lowering the cost of labor. Read full article at the Multinational Monitor